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Old 01-04-2004, 02:39 PM   #7
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Hair for me has always been a tension between too much detail and too little. It seems now to me to be one of those instances where it takes a certain number of passes and, as Tim says, a variety of brushes, plus a certain requisite amount of paint. The best mental construct for the action for me has been likening it to "weaving"--there's just a lot of back and forth. Then, when I step back and it looks overmodeled, as always, I hit a couple of places with my thumb to soften the excess rendering and fussiness. Wish I could get it right from the beginning but I can't.

Nice job, Tim.

Happy New Year--TE
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